About the book: 2023 / The creator of the delightful “Witching April,” Elizabeth von Arnim, called “Vera” her best novel. This is a dramatic and partly autobiographical story about how love is deceiving and people are sometimes not what they seem during the days of romantic courtship. Lucy and Everard recently lost loved ones: she - her beloved father, he - his wife, Vera. Growing heartfelt affection leads the heroes to inevitable marriage. But can a marriage be happy if a woman is blinded by love, and a man is an egoist, listening only to himself? And what happened to Vera, whose death was sudden for all the inhabitants of the family estate? The novel was published in 1921, and immediately readers put it on a par with Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.